What I don't like about this column written by RYH is that he goes to the bother of defending something demonstrably false (the young universe) when there is no theological, hashkofic or halachic reason to do so. Its a fact of nature that the universe is billions of years old, and the Rishonim either give us room to believe this or they agree with it outright, (See the Kaplan book, and this) so why kvetch it?